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FIRST, Nice picture.Β SECOND, P-40s were never used to attack ships; and DEFINATELY not Battleships!Β Nice picture, though.
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I love how the Yamato just... STANDS THERE. No guns raised, no Sanshiki shells fired, none of the 100 + anti aircraft guns reacting to the attack. Musashi in the background seems to be just as puzzled as me.
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cry harder weaboo
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Even though those special shells were useless.
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Same difference, they would`ve at least TRIED to shoot down those planes. No way they didn`t see them coming in bright daylight.
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Does Burma have much ocean? Β Either way, awesome artwork! Β Love all the various Curtiss *hawk designs.
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Putting aside the historical mistakes, why are the gear locks dropped? o_o
That aside, I like how dynamic this picture is, it really feels as if the warhawk was going to make a flyby any moment now
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maybe they were damaged from FLAK. The P40's a pretty sturdy aircraft
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The P-40 required A LOT of killing.
She was an overly sturdy, rugged craft that on more than one occasion stood up to the pounding of an Fw-190,(the heaviest-armed fighter in the air with two 13 mm guns and four 20 mm cannon, until the P-61 Black Widow lifted four 20mm Hispano Cannon and four .50 M2HB into the sky)
So what if it is out-sped, out-gunned, and out-powered? You build an aircraft that can take flak damage, get chewed on by an Fw190, pick up a downed pilot (double-dinking -- look it up), skip-bomb your bunker into dust, and STILL make it home... you built a WINNER.
BTW... "The 15,000th P-40 was an N model decorated with the markings of 28 nations that had employed any of Curtiss-Wright's various aircraft products, not just P-40s. "These spectacular markings gave rise to the erroneous belief that the P-40 series had been used by all twenty-eight countries." McDowell, Earnest R. Famous Aircraft: The P-40 Kittyhawk. New York: ARCO Publishing Company, 1968"
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The P-47 was still the king of endurance. One plane took over 200 rounds of 7.92 mm and still got home.
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Very nice drawing, but P40 never attacked the Imperial Japanese Navy. especially not a Chinese P40, they never operated in range of any water.
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not entirely correct.
True, P-40s did not attack the Imperial Navy directly, but they did attack their support shipping from bases in China.
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did the P40 ever make such an attack on a battleship? I doubt any P40 ever engaged the Yamato class... maybe a destroyer... but certainly not the Yamato
nice work btw.
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Ew-boi is right, ALOT of historical mistakes! It was never designed as a ship killer. It's a good picture, none-the-less
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the P-40 wasn't DESIGNED to be an interceptor, a fighter-bomber, or a night-combatant, either.
It was ORIGINALLY a fighter design to get the Curtiss-Wright Corporation back into a profitable state by supplying a "modern" fighter to international air forces. Contradictory to those fools who refuse to be confused by the facts of History, the Curtiss-Wright Corp. supplied their designs to 28 nations, but only the US and 14 others flew P-40s.
The war changed EVERYTHING, though. P-40 pilots needed "_____________" so they improvised and adapted the necessary tactics to this rough and tumble warhorse.
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The P-40 is one of my all time favorite fighters!!v Though it never sank ships, this is an AWESOME picture!!
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Nice but I see many historical mistakes....
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Awasome art, so much move and action within (!)....
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